Ankit Srivastava
- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2009)
M.S. Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2006)
B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (2004)
Research Interests
Ankit Srivastava's research spans fundamental aspects of wave propagation in heterogeneous media, inverse material design for wave control, micromechanics and homogenization theory, mechanics and control strategies for soft robots, and data-driven mechanics. The application areas of the research include cloaking, shock wave mitigation, transducer design, vibration control, energy-flow control, Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), and virtual sensors.
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
- Secretary, Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Associate Editor, Mechanics of Materials Journal
Awards
- MMAE Excellence in Teaching Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2020
- MMAE Excellence in Research Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017
- NSF CAREER Award: Transformation Elastodynamics and its Application to Wave Control in Solids, National Science Foundation, (award CMMI 1554033, $500,000), Feb 2016-Jan 2021
Publications
- Khodavirdi, Hossein, and Ankit Srivastava, “The analytical structure of acoustic and elastic material properties.” Wave Motion, 108 (2022): 102837. (arxiv)
- Sukumar, N., and Ankit Srivastava, "Exact imposition of boundary conditions with distance functions in physics-informed deep neural networks." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 389 (2022): 114333. (arxiv)
- Graeme W. Milton and Ankit Srivastava, “Further comments on Mark Stockman’s article Criterion for Negative Refraction with Low Optical Losses from a Fundamental Principle of Causality“ (arxiv)
- Chin, Eric B., Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Ankit Srivastava, and N. Sukumar. “Spectral extended finite element method for band structure calculations in phononic crystals.” Journal of Computational Physics, 2020
- Srivastava, Ankit. “Causality and passivity: From electromagnetism and network theory to metamaterials.” Mechanics of Materials, 2020
- Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu, Qiyuan Zhou, Alireza V. Amirkhizi and Ankit Srivastava, “Scattering of in-plane elastic waves at metamaterial interfaces”, International Journal of Engineering Science, 2020
- Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "On the Properties of Phononic Eigenvalue Problems", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019
- Amir Ashkan Mokhtari, Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "On the Emergence of Negative Effective Density and Modulus in 2-phase Phononic Crystals", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019
- Finol D, Lu Y, Mahadevan V, Srivastava A. "Deep convolutional neural networks for eigenvalue problems in mechanics" Int J Numer Methods Eng., 2018
- Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "Level Repulsion and Band Sorting in Phononic Crystals", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 111, 100-112, 2018
- Ankit Srivastava and John R. Willis, "Evanescent Wave Boundary Layers in Metamaterials and Sidestepping them through a Variational Approach", Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2017
- Yan Lu and Ankit Srivastava, "Combining Plane Wave Expansion and Variational Techniques for Fast Phononic Computations", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2017
- Yan Lu, Yang Yang, James K. Guest, and Ankit Srivastava, "3-D Phononic Crystals with Ultra-wide Band Gaps", Scientific Reports, 2017
- Ankit Srivastava, "Metamaterial Properties of Periodic Laminates", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 96 252-263, 2016
- Ankit Srivastava, "Causality and Passivity in Elastodynamics", Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2015
- Ankit Srivastava, "Elastic Metamaterials and Dynamic Homogenization: A Review", invited paper in IJSNM special issue on metamaterials, 2014
Expertise
- Wave propagation
- Micromechanics and homogenization
- Deep learning and data-driven mechanics
- Optimization and inverse problems
